Sweet muffins

Muffins come in many shapes and sizes, from the huge airy (and mostly bland) American versions, through to lovely, intensely flavoured dense muffins at cafés all over New Zealand. Muffins are easy to make, just ensure you have good-sized muffin tins, or paper cases that will sit in a muffin tray, or do as I’ve done and experiment with different-shaped tins like the small loaf tins I found in New York a few years back. If baking them in a tin then make sure you butter it generously and dust